This site provides information that it was not possible to include in the CD booklet. It is also something of a resource for those who have downloaded tracks from iTunes or elsewhere and have no booklet. (If you’re here after illegally copying the CD, may your hard drive melt and your inward parts become unreliable.)

If you haven’t yet bought a copy, you’ll find music clips dotted about the site to listen to. You can buy a copy using the links in the right-hand column of every page.

French and German translations of the main CD booklet note are available by clicking on the relevant flags here.

However, in the exhilarating and fluid world of musicology, nothing stays still for long and the Historical Notes page provides further thoughts on the intriguing relationship between Striggio’s 40-part mass and motet, numerology and instruments in Spem in alium and problems with Tallis’s harmony.

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The DVD that comes with the CD includes a 13-minute film about the recording. Here is a preview to whet your appetite.